Historic mistake: Old North Church and our tax dollars. (Perspective).

From: Church & State | Date: July 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Years ago when I was younger and had fewer gray hairs, I taught school in Boston.

One of my courses examined Boston's history. On Wednesday afternoons, I'd take the students on a tour of interesting sites. I was always surprised that many of the young people who had lived in Boston their entire lives had never visited some of these places.

One stop was, of course, Old North Church, site of the famous lanterns hung for Paul Revere--an event so eloquently dramatized in the poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. I don't remember that the windows of the structure had any ...

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